Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-09-16
OREGON NEWS.
Everything of General Interest IN a
Condensed Form.

A grain elevator is to be puii' AZ Ia
Grande.
Watermelons are sold by the gallon
in Eugene.
The Baker county fair begins Tues
day, Octot er Ill. =,
The next fireman's tournament VIII
be held in Portland.
A new Touring mill and hotel are
to be erected in Burns.
The hum OF the threshing machine
is heard throughout the Ochoco valley.
Work on new Baptist churcn
building will soon begin in Hillsboro.
Nineveh Ford, living on the Milton
road, lost forty acres Of wheat by hre.
A postal car has been put on the
route between Pomeroy and Pendie-
ton.
John A. Vaughan has been ap.
nointed Postmaster at Dallas, Polk
county.
Solomon S. Endicott has been APP
pointed Postmaster at Angora, Coos
county.
A parsonage for the Methodist Epis-
copal minister is being erected at
Heppner. -,
A coroner's jury in Albany recently
brought in verdict OF "accldent by
unavoidable death"
Contracts for construction and ma
terial of the new wing to the asylum
have been let at Salem.
Edward Croft, of the real estate firm
of Croft & Davis, Portland, was thrown
from his cart and killed.
Smith & Bowen's saw mill, near
Fossil, was destroyed by fire, together
with 300, 600 feet of lumber.
VIM. Caldwell was shot and in
stantly killed by Thomas Lemon, in
Ladd's Canyon, Union county.
The La Grande Cinnamon refuse to
pay the washhouse license imposed
upon the business by the authorities.
Mrs. Rachel Lilly, the old lady who
jumped from All 0. R. q N. train near
The Dalles, died in the Astoria hos
pital.
Curtis Perry, aged 16, nephew OF
County Clerk G. J. Trenchard, of Clat-
sop, was drowned near Astoria while
fishing.
Fire brcks out in livery stable at
Lexington, destroying number oil
business houses and residences. In.
surance light.
Horse dealers are still buying ami
mails and shipping East. Oregon
horses slill command high price in
Eastern markets.
A brick mason named Michael Car
lin fell into the basement OF an I'M
finished building at Portland and sus-
tanned fatal injuries.
There are about 700 feet of the EN-
bankment of the levee finished and
about 300 feet OF the riprapping, says
the Pendleton Tribune.
A new saw mill, capable OF cutting
$4,000 feet per day, is being erected
near Mehama, to supply the line OF
the Oregon Pacific east Of Albany.
The remains OF an unknown man
were found in the river at Albany. A
woodchopper disappeared from Cor
wallis some weeks ago, and it is sup
posed the remains are his.
A workman named Wilson on the
0. & G. railroad, near Stayton, was
struck by a piece of stump blown up
up by giant powder, and injured in
such manner that he died in few
minutes.
Several days ago rattlesnake with
seven rattles and button, and about
three feet long, was killed at the Odd
Fellows cemetery near Salem. These
dangerous reptiles seem to be multi
plying in Oregon of late.
G. w. Meek was fatally injured in
the Wallowa saw mill by piece Of
timber which caught in the edger and
was thrown with terrible force against
his head, driving splinter into his
brain and fracturing his skull.
Three boys, ]. Babbage, R. Prae'
and Curtis Perry, went duck hunting
near Astoria. At the mouth of creek
the boat upset. Curtis Perry was
selzed with fit and tried to get te
shore, but Was almost immediately
drowned.
The postoffice at Willamette slough
was discontinued by order of the Pos
Office Department some time since
but steps are being taken to re-estab
fish the office under the name of Hol
brook, that being the name of the rail
road station.
Col. H. B. Compson, of Huntington
has been appointed principal teache,
OF the school on the Klamath agency
and J. w. Brandenb,ry principa
teacher at the Yainax school at The
same agency, by the Commissioners o.
Indian Affairs.
John Strobe, a wealthy cattleman o.
OWyhee county, I. T., and his foreman
John Thurman, have been arrested 81
V ale. Malhnpr annptr